vanta - Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform
Responsibilities
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating backend services, APIs, or developer platforms. • Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products or agentic workflows and understanding their failure modes. • Experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration platforms and designing for idempotency, retries, and long-running state. • Familiarity with agent harnesses and frameworks, including tool design, context management, subagents, and their tradeoffs. • Practical evaluation experience: defining success, diagnosing failures, and measuring whether changes improve outcomes. • Product judgment: connecting platform decisions to developer needs and customer outcomes. • Ownership, curiosity, and clear communication across teams in a rapidly changing technical environment. • Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify their skills and strengthen their outcomes, applying it across routine workflows, actively building fluency through experimentation, and exercising sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar. • What you can expect as a Vanta’n: • Industry-competitive salary and equity • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans • 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents • Health & wellness stipend • Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend • Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
Benefits
• Your work can improve AI experiences across Vanta. Challenges include reliable agent execution, useful retrieval and context, reproducible evaluations, and tools that help engineers investigate and fix AI failures. • Growth trajectory • Grow from owning a platform capability end to end to leading broader technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and shaping capabilities adopted across teams. • Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog https://www.vanta.com/all-categories/engineering to learn more about what our team is working on! • What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform at Vanta: • Build shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and agentic workflows. • Integrate durable execution infrastructure for long-running agent workflows, including checkpointing, retries, human-in-the-loop steps, and recovery from partial failures. • Evolve our agent harness, the runtime for tool calling, context management, memory, and model orchestration. • Develop evaluation and debugging tools that turn production failures into measurable improvements and regression coverage. • Improve model integrations, retrieval, and context delivery to support accurate, useful AI behavior. • Own platform capabilities through rollout and operation, including reliability, observability, performance, and secure handling of customer data. • Partner with product teams to prototype solutions, identify common needs, and drive adoption of reusable platform capabilities. • Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting • Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time • 11 company-paid holidays • Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events! • Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney • To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.
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